Readme for 40486 #SilenceSam and #SilentSam Tweets Dataset : ============================================================= The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Wilson Library collection guide for this data can be found at: http://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/40486/ Copyright is retained by the authors of tweets in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. The dataset is provided 'as is' without warranty or any representation of accuracy, timeliness or completeness. No deduplication was performed. The dataset format is line-oriented JSON in utf8 encoding. The tweet identifiers are provided in text (.txt) file format. Dataset Overview : ------------------ This dataset contains Twitter data for several Twitter search queries that were collected related to the Fall 2017 Confederate Monument protests. The tweets were collected using the twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) python package that makes use of Twitter's API. The search function of the Twitter API retrieves tweets from the previous seven days. The following hashtags were captured between August 22, 2017 and December 15, 2017. #silencesam #silentsam In the first few days of the protest, tweets using #silencesam and #silentsam were captured more frequently using the filter feature. Beginning on 9/15/2017, weekly searches for the hashtags were conducted. The following related accounts and hashtags were also captured with the search function though not as frequently as the #silentsam and #silencesam tags. #iaarchat: Collected on 20170915 #boycottunc: Collected on 20170929 and 20171020 #boycottunctownhall: Collected on 20171006 @Move_Silent_Sam account: Collected on 20171006, 20171013, 20171020, 20171027, 20171103, 20171110, 20171201, 20171215 ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: ----- Due to Twitter Terms of Service the full JSON data collected is not publicly available. Files containing tweet identifiers (tweet ids) for all collected tweets are made available. You will need to "hydrated" the tweets prior to use by querying the Twitter API for the tweet content. Any tweets that have been deleted or made private since the original collection date will not be retrieved. Twarc can hydrate tweet ids. https://github.com/DocNow/twarc or https://github.com/DocNow/hydrator Public Files : -------------- 40486-2017SilentSamtags_ids.txt (includes #silentsam and #silencesam) 40486iaarchatTag_ids.txt 40486boycottTownHall_ids.txt 40486boytcottuncTag_ids.txt 40486AtMoveSilentSam_ids.txt Restricted Files: ----------------- All individual JSON files containing full data. If you have questions, contact wilsonlibrary@unc.edu for assistance.